'Facts of Life' stars reunite in TV movie

By Breeanna Hare, CNN

Updated 7:35 PM ET, Mon July 21, 2014

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You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have -- a beloved sitcom about boarding school girls and their house mother. Let's see what the ladies have been up to since the show went off the air in 1988.

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Kim Fields, who played Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey, roller-skated over to Fox in 1993 to play Regine Hunter on "Living Single." She appeared on several series and worked as a director-producer before playing a social worker in 2012's "What to Expect When You're Expecting." She is the newest member of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta."

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After playing spoiled Blair Warner on "The Facts of Life" and taking a lengthy hiatus from acting, Whelchel reprised her role in 2001's "The Facts of Life Reunion." After divorcing her husband of 24 years in March 2012, Whelchel was a contestant on CBS' "Survivor: Philippines" and then snagged a role in Tyler Perry's 2013 movie "Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas." In 2014, she reunited with her former co-star Kim Fields in the Hallmark Channel movie "For Better or For Worse."

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Mindy Cohn has voiced "Scooby-Doo's" Velma and appeared on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" as Dylan's mom since playing Natalie Green. According to IMDb, Cohn voiced Velma in the 2015 TV movie "Freak Out Scooby Doo!" and has been performing comedy in Los Angeles.

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Rebellious Jo Polniaczek joined the show in its second season. Nancy McKeon has since appeared on series like "Can't Hurry Love" and "Style & Substance." She starred in Lifetime's "The Division" and played Connie Munroe on the Disney Channel's "Sonny with a Chance."

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After playing house mother-turned-dietitian Edna Garrett, Charlotte Rae went on to voice the character of Nanny on "101 Dalmatians: The Series." She has also appeared in films like "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" and TV shows such as "ER." She played a "bead shop woman" on a 2011 episode of "Pretty Little Liars."

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Cloris Leachman joined the cast as Beverly in 1986. With flicks like "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble," "Now and Then" and "The Women" under her belt, the "Young Frankenstein" actress competed on season 7 of "Dancing With the Stars." She also starred on Fox's "Raising Hope." Leachman won an Oscar for best supporting actress for 1971's "The Last Picture Show."

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Since playing Beverly's adopted son, Andy Moffet, actor Mackenzie Astin went on to appear in films like 1994's "Iron Will," 1996's "In Love and War," 2003's "How to Deal" and 2000's "Stranger Than Fiction." He has recently appeared in several TV shows, including "Hawaii Five-0," "Scandal" and "Mad Men."

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After playing handyman George Burnett, George Clooney starred in "ER" and picked up an Oscar for his role in 2005's "Syriana." He's known for starring in films like "Ocean's Eleven" and its sequels, "O Brother, Where Art Thou," "Up in the Air" and "Good Night, and Good Luck," which he also directed and co-wrote. In 2014, he married attorney Amal Alamuddin.

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Story highlights

Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields reunited in a 2014 TV movie

They co-starred on the '80s sitcom "Facts of Life"

The two have said that it was just like "riding a bike"

On Saturday, two stars from "Facts of Life" got together for a long overdue TV reunion.

Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields, who co-starred on the '80s sitcom about a group of girls in boarding school as Blair and Tootie, were reunited in the Hallmark Channel TV movie, "For Better or For Worse," which aired on July 19.

After each going their separate ways -- Fields continued to act and direct while Whelchel became a Christian writer and speaker -- returning to a set together was "like riding a bike," Fields recently told "Good Morning America."

"Lisa's a wonderfully talented woman, plain and simple," the now 45-year-old actress said of her co-star.

Whelchel, 51, was just as comforted to take a small screen job alongside a familiar face.

"It was like old times, but really, really different," Whelchel said to People magazine. "We felt comfortable together, because we're such good friends. But I can see her talent as an adult. I would watch her during a scene now and think, 'Wow, she's really good. She's so funny.' I didn't appreciate that as a kid."

So what's the rest of the cast been up to? Click through the photos to find out.